Leanne's POV

Michael and I have been staying with his family for a few days now and today we're finally going back home. It's not that I don't like his family because I do, they've been really nice to me since day one. Everybody expect LaToya that is, who's always seemed to have an a problem with me, even before what happened with Mary. I understand her and even the others being worried after what happened with Mary, but I can't understand why LaToya has always had a problem with me and that's one of the main reasons I can't wait to get back home. One because me and Micheal can be alone without anybody else around and the other because of how uncomfortable LaToya makes me feel. I haven't said anything to Micheal about her though because she's his sister and I don't want to cause any problems between him and her.

We're downstairs eating breakfast and as always LaToya keeps giving me the side eye when she thinks nobody is looking and I'm doing my best to try and ignore her. "So I was thinking since I'm not working today, me an you could go shopping or something this morning" Janet smiles. "I'd love to, but I'm gonna go to the hotel today to check on thing's since I haven't been for awhile. We can go tomorrow if that ok?"

"Sure" she smiles. "Do you really think that's such a good idea you going there after what's happened?" LaToya comments. "Why not? I am the manger there. I can't exactly do that from home" I shrug. "And what about when you see Emma? Because she will ask about the trial and why you left with Mary. What are you gonna tell her when she asks why you lied in court. It's not like you can tell her the truth" she shrugs.

"She doesn't have to tell her anything" Micheal cuts in. "But she will ask. She works there and will go straight over to her when she's sees she's back. It's not like she's just gonna forget and let it go"

"Exactly. She works there. She's there to do her job then leave. Not ask questions"

"But she will and people are gonna want to know where Mary is and..."

"So what if she does. Like I said, Leanne doesn't have to answer shit" he frowns. "We've already worked out what we're gonna say" I cut in. "If anybody asks where Mary is I'm gonna tell them that after I went back home, me and her got into and argument and I moved back in with Micheal and havent seen or heard from her since"

"And you really think people would believe that?" She raises an eyebrow and me. "Why not? It's not like she's lying" Janet cuts in. "She really hasn't seen or spoken to Mary since she moved back in with Micheal"

"Because she dead" LaToya mumbles. "That's just a minor detail" Micheal shrugs. "Are you serious!? That's not a Minor detail?" She frowns at him. "She ki..."

"I'm gonna go get ready" I mumble, cutting her off and leave the room.

"See what you did!? Why don't you quit getting at her all the time?" I hear Micheal snap in a hushed tone, thinking I can't hear him and I go upstairs and I can still hear them arguing.

"I'm in the room getting dressed and the door knocks and Micheal walks in. "Are you ok?" He asks softly an I nod. "I'm sorry about LaToya" he says coming over and sits on the edge of the bed. "It's fine" I shrug, trying not to make a big deal about it. It does upset me what she was saying, but I've already caused an argument between Micheal and his sister and I don't want to make it any worse for him.

"No it's not" he says softly walking over to me and wraps his arms around me. "Are you sure your ready to go back?"

"You don't want me too?" I turn and face him. "It's not that I don't want you to. I'm just worried it might be too much for you"

"I'll be fine" I smile and wrap my arms around him. "I'm not gonna be there too long anyway. I'm just gonna check everything's ok and then go home"

"Are you really gonna go straight home this time?" He asks unsure and I nod. "I swear" I smile and peck his lips and go to break away, but he leans forward, kissing me slightly deeper.

As our kiss deepens, Micheal leads us both over towards the dresser and moans softly into my mouth as I slowly move my hand down towards his growing bulge and just as I undo his pants the door opens and Micheal quickly breaks away from our kiss, adjusting himself.

"Randy's here. He's waiting downstairs for you" LaToya says with and attitude and stands frowning at us with her arms folded. "I'll be down in a minute" Micheal says. "Do you really think that it's apporeate to be doing things like that in other people's homes?"

"Do you really think it's appropriate to walk in other people's rooms without knocking?... again"  I say with the same  attitude and LaToya is about to say something, but Micheal cuts her off. "Why don't I drive you to the hotel since we're going that way" he says leading me out of the room, quickly. "But your office is the opposite way?" I frown confused. "I'm just gonna go check on something" he mutters and I nod, not saying anything, sensing the look on his face where he's going and what he's going to check.

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Michael's POV

I quickly took Leanne out of the way of LaToya because I could see where things were leading and thought it was best not to leave them in the house together, not because I was worried they'd get physical and fight, but because I've been on the recieving end (more than once) when Leanne goes into bitch mode and as much as I don't like the way she acts around Leanne, even LaToya doesn't deserve to hear what comes out of that girls mouth when she's pissed. It scares the shit out of ME when she blows up and I'm a grown man!

Once we got in the car, Leanne's mood went back to being calm and relaxed and as I'm driving, I keep glancing over and see her smiling slightly, playing with the locket I got back for her.

I still haven't told her about the letter yet and everytime I see her playing with that locket and looking at the photo inside, I feel more guilty. She's already been through so much and to find out that the man and woman that raised her and who she loved so much aren't actually her parents and what they did is gonna break her heart.

"Um... Micheal?" Leanne says, breaking my thoughts and I turn to her confused. "You've drove past the hotel"

"Oh yeah.. sorry" I mumble "it's ok. I'll get out here" she giggles slightly, taking off her seatbelt. "I'll just drive back"

"It's fine really. It's only at the top of the street" she smiles and pecks my lips. "I'll see you later" she smiles and gets out of the car.

"Your freaked out about going back there too aren't you?" Randy says once Leanne leaves the car. "Why do you need to go back there anyway?"

"I just need to check something" I mumble "what's to check?" He shrugs confused. "Just that nobody's been there. You don't have to come if you don't want to"

"No way! I'm not letting you go there alone" he widens his eyes "What's to check anyway?"

"Umm..  just something" I mumble.

"What do you need to check?" He asks again, sensing something and I don't say anything for a moment.

"If you I tell you something, you have to swear you won't say a word to anybody"

"Sure. I swear" he shrugs and I sigh heavily and tell him about the letter.

"WHAT THE FUCK!!!?" He gasps when I start telling him about the  letter. "Does Leanne know?"

"No. And you can't tell her either"

"Are you serious!? You have to tell her"

"Do you have any idea how heartbroken she's gonna be? How would you feel it was you and our parents did that?"

"I'd be heartbroken too. Anybody would, but she still deserves to know" he says and I don't say anything. "I won't say anything, but you need to. You can't keep this from her. It's not right" he says softly. "We don't even know if it's true or not" I point out.

"Why would her grandma lie about something like that?" He shrugs confused. "She was pretty old and old people get a little crazy and confused sometimes and say things that aren't true. Maybe Maria was confused"

"Are you trying to convince me or you?" He raises and eyebrow. "Both... Which is why I need to be sure before I do anything" I mumble "how are you gonna do that?"

"DNA test" I mumble "But Leanne doesn't have any other living family left. How are you gonna do a.... oh hell no!" He shakes in disbelief "please tell me your not gonna do what I think your gonna do"

"What other option do I have? Like you said. Leanne doesn't have any living relatives left and I can't exactly do a test with her parents"

"Why because there dead? Oh yeah so is Mary!" He says sarcastically "that's messed up Mike. You can't go around messing with dead people. You already kicked her body down the stairs you can't go poking at her with stuff for DNA too"

"You think I wanna be doing this!? because trust me I don't!" I snap and he doesn't say anything for a moment.

"An what about Leanne? Don't you think she's gonna get suspicious when to start trying to put cotton swabs in her mouth?"

"I can get her DNA easy. You can get it from hair strands, off a straw she's used and a whole bunch of ways" I shrug and he goes silent for a moment, thinking.

"Wait. Wouldn't it have shown up when she was in the hostpital? Because they keep records of missing people stuff and what about birth certificates and thing's like that? Because she has those stuff" He asks confused. "They said she was born at home  and with her dad being a doctor. And nobody knowing Anna lost her real  baby. It wouldn't be that hard, plus she wasn't classed as a missing person when she went into hostpital so they would have had reason to check on that kind of stuff"

"But..."

"I don't know all the answers ok!?" I cut him off and park the car around the back of the house. "Let's just deal with this first and if it comes back Maria was telling the truth then i'll figure out the rest later"

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Leanne's POV

"Hey! Your back!" Dave one of the security at the hotel smiles as I walk in. "Hey! How's it going?" I smile back. "It's all good. What about you? We're you been hiding all this time?"

"I was just taking some time off to relax and stuff" I shrug. "Well don't be coming back working too hard. Not with that precious cargo your carrying around" he smiles pointing at my baby bump. "Yeah, yeah" I roll my eyes playfully and make my way to my office.

After about an 30 minutes of checking through some stuff, I'm about to call Micheal to let him know I'm on my way home and there's a knock on the door.

"Come in" I call, while getting my things together. "I heard you were back" I hear Emma's voice and turn around, nervously to face her.

"How come you didn't come over to me before?"

"I didn't see you" I lie "yes you did" she says, looking at me confused and pissed. "Why did you it?"

"W-what do you me..."

"How could side with that woman after everything she did to us? To YOU! You know what she did to your parents. You heard it on that tape over and over again. yet you stood up in court and defended her? Why?" She shakes her head confused. "I have to go. I'm in a hurry an..."

"Let me guess you have meeting you have to get to?" She says sarcastically. "Why won't you tell me? Is she threatening you?" She asks then looks at me nervously. "Please tell me she is making you do that again" she shakes her head. "No. I've not even spoken to her" I shake my head.

"What do are you talking about. Everybody knows you left the court house with her?"

"We had and argument after we left and I moved back in with Micheal" I shrug. "He took you back after what you did?" She widens her eyes suprised. "Well we are having a child together" I shrug. "your using a baby to trap him?" She frowns.

"Of course not! I'd never do that!" I snap "then what are you doing? One minute your sided with us, then Mary and now you've sweet talked Michael into taking you back now that things fucked up with your Mary? Let me guess. She gave you a whole sob story about how sorry she was and how she's changed and all that bullshit? And you actually fell for it" she shakes head at me. "Do you have any idea what you've done? Once she's back on her feet, she gonna be go in back to how she was and you'll be right back we're you started and..."

"I have to go" I cut her off, picking up my stuff too leave. "Why? You must have known people i'd ask questions. Why can't you just tell me why you lied in court?"

"I don't care if you have questions or not. I came here to check everything was ok and it is, so now I'm leaving" I shrug. "So that's it? Your just gonna run away from the problem? Just like you always do"

"I'm not running. I've just told you why I came here and now I'm done so I'm going home" I shrug and she opens her mouth to speak, but I cut her off. "Speaking of jobs. Don't you have work to do? You don't get paid to stand around questioning me" I say and quickly leave before she can say anything else.

When I get back to the house, it feels really weird. Normally Bugsy would run straight over when he hears the front door open, but since we were staying and Michael's parents, Randy agreed to take care of him for us since we couldn't take him with us because LaToya hates cats.

When I get home I text Micheal to let him know I'm back then go upstairs to take a shower and change into some PJs then head back downstairs and sit looking at the locket my parents gave me. The picture inside was from when I was first born and my parents told me it was our first picture together and even though I have so many photo's of the three of us together over the years. This one has always been the most special to me because this was from the day I was born and the day we became a family and I really hope Micheal and I can give our baby the same love and happiness our parents gave to us.

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Micheal's POV

"Leanne's gone back home and said she wants you to bring the Bugsy back" I tell Randy after reading my text and he doesn't say anything and continues staring at the basement door.

"Randy?"

"What?"

"The cat"

"What cat?" He turns to me confused. "Bugsy. Leanne wants him back. You do still have him don't you?"

"Are you seriously worrying about some stupid cat? Have you forgotten what's in there?" He widens his eyes, pointing at the basement door. "Of course not, but there's not alot we can do about that. Do you have the cat or not? Please tell me you didn't lose it"

"The little fuckers fine! Now can we just hurry up and go? It's freaking me out in here"

"Oh my god! She dead! What exactly do you think she's gonna do? And don't call my cat a little fucker!" I frown and go over to unlock the door.

"Are you coming or what?"

"I ain't going down there" he shakes his head. "And your cat is a little fucker. It's done nothing but scratch and bite me everytime I move and it stares and me with its evil eyes like some creepy furry demond and..."

"Will you quit being a little bitch? Jeez your scared of everything. Stop being a wuss" I sigh, making my way to the bottom of the stairs where Mary is"

"I'm not a wuss"

"Then come down here" I shrug and he shake his head.

"Fuck...that! Have you never heard of night of the living dead? She could come back alive and kill us any second" He says nervously. "Whatever" I sigh rolling my eyes and go closer to Mary.

"Have you got it yet?" He asks impatiently.  "Got it" I say standing up. "Well hurry and get out of there before...."

"OH FUCK!!!" I gasp, falling on into the step. "What!? What it!?"
"HELP ME!!! GET HER OFF ME!!" I Panic and Randy screams and rushes down to help me.

"What the fuck is wrong with you!!?" He snaps "I can't believe you fell for that" I laugh getting up and walking back up the stairs. "That's fucked up Mike" Randy frowns following me back up there stairs. "You better hurry. She's looking at you" I smirk as he quickly runs back up.

"Your sick!"

"It was joke. Relax. She's not gonna hurt you" I roll my eyes and lock the door behind us. "So what happens now?" He asks, changing the subject. "I'll get Leanne's DNA and then send them both for a test and if it matches then Maria was wrong and obviously crazy"

"And if it doesn't match?"

"Let just deal with this first" I mumble. "C'Mon let's get out of here. I need to get Bugsy from your place" I sigh heavily.

I left the DNA swab with Randy so Leanne doesn't find it and picked up the cat and made my home.

"I don't know why Randy was saying such mean stuff about you. Your a perfect Angel" I coo stroking Bugsy's little head as I take him out of the car and he starts purring and snuggling up against me.

"We're back" I smile putting Bugsy down and Leanne comes over and wraps her arms around me. "Hi" she smiles, pecking my lips and I kiss her back the same way.

"How did it go?" I ask "I spoke to Emma... Well she came to look for me and didn't give me much choice" she shrugs and we both go into the living and sit on the couch an she tells me what happened.

"I did tell you, you didn't have to go back just yet"

"I know, but I would have had to face her eventually" she shrugs and I wrap my arms around her and pull her close to me an peck her lips and before I can break away she pulls me closer to her, deeping our kiss, leading us both down onto the sofa.

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Lisa's POV

It's been a few days since I saw Micheal at the nursing home and I really wanted to talk to him again, but with my mom settling into her new home, I've not been able to contact him and now that him and Leanne broke up, it's the perfect time for me to see him.

I know things will be hard at first, but I know once me and Micheal have spoken we'll be able to work thing's out again, now that Leanne has left him and with her taking his baby too means he will be more willing to accept mine.

I know he's said in the past that he doesn't want to be with me anymore, but I know deep down that was only because he was with Leanne and didn't want to break up with her. I know Micheal still loves me because if he didn't then he wouldn't have been so kind to me all those times. Like when he saw me that day in the rain or when I was going to visit my mother in the nursing home.

We've had our problems in the past, but I know Micheal an I can work through them and we can be happy again, just like I know he'll be the perfect daddy for my baby.

I'm going to his office tomorrow and I can't wait to see him again.